Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Daily Headlines: April 14, 2009

* Paraguay: President Fernando Lugo admitted to several shocking allegations and confessed that he had a relationship and fathered a child during his time as a Roman Catholic bishop.

* Puerto Rico: Police suspect that the scheduled redeployment of a soldier to Iraq was a factor in his recent suicide.

* Brazil: The global economic slowdown has hit Japanese-Brazilians hard and several thousand have returned to Brazil.

* Bolivia: The government has opened three indigenous universities which “will have as their mission recovering the culture, languages and knowledge of the indigenous peoples.”

Image- AP (“Paraguay's President and former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo gestures during a news conference at the government palace in Asuncion, Monday, April 13, 2009. Lugo admitted Monday he had a relationship with Viviana Carrilllo, 26, and the paternity of her son Guillermo Armindo, 2, born when he was still the bishop of San Pedro, 400 kms northeast from Asuncion.”).
Online Sources- The Latin Americanist, Voice of America, LAHT, AP, Reuters

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